24 Capricci Per Violino solo ... Dedicati agli Artisti. Op. Ia. - FIRST EDITION

Milano: Gio. Ricordi. [1820]. First Edition, First Printing. Upright folio. 46 p. Engraved. [PN] 403.Catalogo tematico p. 89; Fuld (rev. ed.) p. 455. A fine copy, with scattered light foxing, self-printed wrappers with some darkening around the edges and few small repairs to the borders.


The very rare first edition of Paganini's epoch-making classic of violin playing. The composer proudly announces the new era of the virtuoso on his title page,"Dedicati Agli ARTISTI"; that is, his work is explicitly aimed at professional virtuosos rather than amateur musicians. Paganini's Caprices became the inspiration for a new era in instrumental virtuosity in general, and provided well-known themes for many works modelled on them, including by Schumann (1831), Liszt (1851), Brahms (1863), Szymanowski (1918), Rachmaninov (1934), Lutoslawski (1941) and Lloyd Webber (1977). (11804)

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